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Letters Patent No. 99,431, dated Februan'y 1, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pm of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn Be it known that l, D. G. GUTTRIDGE, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leather-Sammiers; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the aecom-44 panying drawings, and to the -letters of reference .marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nat-ure of myinvention consists in the const-rue tion of a leather-sammler for pressing the water from the skins, as will hereafter be fully set forth and described.'

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention.

y Figure 2 is an end view of the frame, showing the wheels upon the ends of the rollers.

Figure 3 is a vertical section view ofthe rollers.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

LetterA represents the legs or standards, which serve as a support to the rollers B. These legs are made to branch out at .their bottom, so as to form a firm base, strengthened by the braces D, and have .a vertical slot out in their top, which serves as a bed to the slides attached to the ends ofthe rollers.

These rollers consist of round iron or wooden bars, over which :there is placed a coating of rubber, so as to form a soft, yielding surface. Upon the ends of each of these there is placed a cog-wheel, C, which v gear together, and receive their mot-ion from the small wheels E, attached to each one ot' the handles.

In order to regulate the pressure of the rollers on vthe leather, there has been a movable slide, G, secured to each one `of' the rollers, moving up and down in the slot, formed in the'top of the standards A, and regulated by the thumb-screws H, which have their bearings inthe cap-pieces K.

Placed just under the lower roller strip of rubber, or anysuitable material, which acts as a scraper, L, to clean the roller of all water, Sto., that may cling to it. This strip is firmly secured between the two metal plates M, the ends of which are secured in the bottom of the slot in the standards, either by wedges orany suitable device. As there is an opening formed in the under side of these plates, which passes over' the sides of the standard, iit also serves as a brace to steady the upper part.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Witnesses:

J AMES M. TAYLOR, J AMES A. BELL.

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